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We are very pleased to announce the winner of DesignFootball.com's latest competion, to design a Middlesbrough Futsal Club's new home kit. 

As usual, the designs were generally of a very high standard and Boro were hugely impressed with what was put forward.  Accordingly, we'll leave it to them to do the honours:

"Middlesbrough Futsal Club, in conjunction with DesignFootball.com, ran a competition to design the club's new strip for 2010-11.  The competition received over 150 entries, with some fantastic and innovative designs, and some awful ones! 

A huge thank you to everyone who entered, and special mention to Morgan O'Brien, Ben Biro and Matupeco, who all contributed several fantastic designs. See all the entries here.

The new Puma v1.10 African Nations Kit collection in this Gallery. Puma has recently unveiled the 2010 Football Kits for the eleven African teams it sponsors: Ghana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Egypt, Tunisia, Namibia, Morocco, Angola, Senegal and Togo.

Puma reprieves its role as one of the most innovative football kit suppliers, delivering home and away kits for its 11 African teams, which push the boundaries of technology and design. Making a bold statement, the jerseys are contoured to deliver a snug body fit that accentuates the players' musculature.

Design Middlesbrough Futsal Club’s 2009-2011 home kit

Middlesbrough Futsal Club have teamed up with Sala Sports and DesignFootball.com to bring you a fantastic competition to design Boro’s new home kit as they aim for a place in the UEFA Futsal Cup.

Middlesbrough are one of England’s leading futsal clubs and currently sit at the top of the national league North.  They will contest the English title in October against the best teams from the Midlands and South and your design could inspire them to greater things!  As well as on the court, they are leading the way in futsal off the pitch, already becoming a recognised brand all over the world, with fans in South America, Asia and Europe.

Sala Sports supply Middlesbrough with their kit from Italian brand Erreà.  Fabrizio Taddei of Erreà, a representative of DesignFootball.com and the Boro committee will judge the competition and the winner will receive a kit for their team courtesy of Sala Sports.  Middlesbrough Futsal Club will also give away a family season ticket for 2010 and the winning design will be presented to you at the first home game at Thornaby Pavilion.

And the winner is... Well I am not going to give that away just yet, we'll get to that later on, just want to say thanks to everyone who entered the competition. We have had some very interesting and elaborate designs sent in and some quite simplistic too. So again to everyone who uploaded their designs, thank you ever so much and fingers crossed...

Now that little mushy bit is out of the way, onto some of the close runners up, who myself and the 'panel' of judges believe deserve a mention. There was a great deal of delight in visiting DesignFootball every day to see what wonderful works had been created.

Firstly there is this magnificent work by Matupeco. It has a very creative reversible theme, using both modern and traditional Sevilla insignia on either side. In keeping with the theme of modern and bygone on either side of the shirt the font differs from antiquated on one side and a more fresh-looking paint effect on the other. The symbolic dates and script located in different parts of the shirt make it very identifiable to any Sevilla fan and it would most likely be a fans' favourite. The shirt is finished off with a classy ripped look at the bottom, making something of a looking glass effect into the reversed side.

The Stafford Rangers FC Kit Design Competition is now CLOSED.
 
The entries have poured in but now the floodgates must close.  Kit Design Competition #2 will be accepting no new entries and all that is left now is for Stafford Rangers to decide if any of the 250+ designs are suitable for their playing wear next season.
 
The standard of the entries in general seems very high so fingers crossed.  Remember, should Stafford Rangers choose a home and/or away kit from designs entered then the designer(s) will receive their shirt as a prize and the honour of seeing their creation(s) carried by the team next season.
 
For all those who have entered, thank you.  It's been a pleasure to see what you've come up with and although there is a certainly a range from the sublime to the ridiculous there's merit at both ends of that scale.  We await the decision and we certainly don't envy those having to choose.  Even if Stafford Rangers ultimately decide to go with a design created by an established manufacturer, please share our pride in what has been uploaded over the last week or so.